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Poverty, that is the most natural human conditional at its essence.

When humans first


started evolving into what we are now we did not have anything. We were savages, holding
ourselves together, eventually constructing the first civilizations, accumulating riches, creating
the molds for our society as what it is nowadays. Since when did poverty became a problem?
To those civilizations, poverty was the very normal, not a problem. Everyone had to survive as
they could, having only a few as ones who possessed more goods, more value. Now, when
those people who used to accumulate value became a considerable percentage of the
civilizations, that is where the problem began. People started noticing frequently their
differences, dividing themselves. People who were poor got marginalized, being excluded by
those who possessed accumulated value. The means to make it right are what we have been
trying to discover over the past decades, with the emergence of democracy.

The most important thing we need for that to happen is that we must bring the bar up,
we need to get poor people on the same level as rich people, by giving them equal opportunity
in life. How to do that, despite seeming tricky, is something quite simples. Both things that
those primitive civilizations had to achieve to evolve were education and economic
development.

At first, education. Being qualified in a specialized job is what got our society to what is
our very well organized and divided organism and what can get an individual to better his life
exponentially. Secondly, economical organization. Discovering means of trading and of
organizing money is what led society to learn investments, leading us into technological
advancement and better industries. By economic organization, I mean it is substantially
necessary for us to have an economic environment where we are free to trade and multiply
value with not much restraint.

Some people may say that what I proposed is opposite of wrong, or maybe just
partially true. The main argument against such solutions is that we would not be able to bring
the general line of poverty up without bringing the line of the rich down. However, I must
strongly disagree with such a thing. Not once in history has taking riches from the rich and
distributing it to the poor been a good thing. We cannot just dismantle the natural economic
order there is, longing for immediate results, and expect such actions not to have any
consequences in the future.

With my point being already made, I must reinforce once again that my proposal
would be extremely beneficial for any country to adopt in order to soften the problems of
poverty, and even maybe end them. We, as a society that strives itself in direction of a better
future, should all work for such measurements to be enforced, so that, at least one of our
problems, began to be taken care of.

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